Women led the first campaigns for temperance, but later men, spurred by the Anti-Saloon League, rallied for dry laws in states throughout the country.

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On Dec. 5, 1933, with crucial votes in Pennsylvania, Ohio and finally Utah, the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, and President Franklin Roosevelt announced that the nation's 14-year policy of Prohibition was over.

In his announcement, Roosevelt implored America to restrain itself. ...